A new initiative pieced together by the National Quilt Museum, along with professors at Murray State University, is using the fiber arts to teach K-12 students about geometry and other mathematical principles.

Built off of New York quilter and educator Victoria Findlay Wolfe's "Option Expedition" exhibit – which just ended its run at the Paducah museum – the program equips teachers with lesson plans and visual aids to help their students engage with quilts and recognize real-world applications of mathematical ideas.

Wolfe's work that inspired the program takes basic shapes – squares, circles, triangles and parallelograms – and arranges them in playful, abstract ways to emphasize space, scale, alignment and color. She arranges and rearranges the exhibit to create new patterns and interpla

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